MISSION
Facilitating connection between people and plants.
VISION
Homes, farms, schools, institutions, and community centers across Maine/Wabanakik have thriving edible|medicinal gardens. Everyone in our community has access to food|herbs as an essential part of our wellbeing.
VALUES
Community Care
We all operate within systems greater than ourselves. A systems perspective supports the complex nature of people, land, and spirit. “To not illuminate the systems making us unwell is to bypass the heart and soul of justice work.” Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance
Stewardship
I use organic/no-spray and no-till garden practices for the medicine I grow. I support garden and herbal practices that are accessible and self-sustaining. As a trained naturalist and agroecologist, my work with the land is in deep relationship with all the beyond-human beings.
Humility
Every person is the best expert of their own body, and every community is the expert on their own needs and visions. Wabanaki people and the beings of the land hold the wisdom of stewardship in this place; I am a lifelong student.
I’ve been designing & managing educational gardens since 2010 — growing plants, making medicine, and sharing their medicine. I am trained as an herbalist in thew oldways of worktrade apprenticeship with mentors on farms, following my teachers around with baskets. The majority of my herbal training is in Mediterranean healing traditions.
I cultivate the preventative medicine that comes from our gardens, happens in our kitchens, and which lives all around us. Our bodies are our greatest teachers.
As a trained agroecologist and Maine Master Naturalist, I steward a half-acre of perennial gardens in Freeport Maine unceded Wabanaki land. I am a white woman, third-gen Sicilian & Italian-American, cisgendered, & non-disabled.
I work full-time in the food and environmental movements. My botanical work as a settler-colonialist exists within a framework of mutual aid and a vision of herbalism supporting fellow organizers & activists. I am not an individual; I am part of a web of plant growers & earth stewareds. I apprentice myself to community and to place.
